Political parties update their platforms every four years. Sometimes, the changes are minor, while other times, they are significant. Over time, these changes add up. The differences are drastic when comparing a current platform with one from the same party sixty or seventy years ago. Parties change policies, alter their moral standings, and choose to emphasize or deemphasize certain issues. The political party you support today will look different in twenty or thirty years.

The outhouse sitting on these antique wheels itself is over 100 years old. It was given to me, Florian Kana, in the late 1950s. House-movers, George and Florian Kana and crew, had just moved off two log cabins for a client. This outhouse was located right between the two cabins. The lady selling the cabins said she no longer needed it since she just had indoor plumbing installed. So, if I wanted it I could have it. Well, I never turned down anything that was free. We rolled it on a truck and took it home. For about 40 years I used it for a deer stand – as you can see by the gun ports cut out in the door and sides. (One unique thing about having an outhouse for a deer stand is after drinking all that hot coffee and eating a doughnut or two, you find out you have “a need to go!”) With the deer being active outside, all I had to do was to lift up the lid. Of course, being down wind from that big buck helped.

C Highlights It took some time, but a set of new laws and rules passed by the Texas Legislature in 2023 went into effect on Sept. 1, the Houston Chronicle reported.

T EXAS History The “Tough ’Ombres” of the Ninetieth Infantry Division saw action for the first time on the bloody battlefields of France on Sep. 12, 1918.

Sept. 10-13, 1974 A suspect apprehended in connection with a house burglary near West Point was charged with felony theft in Judge A.V.

To the editor: There are not enough pages in the Fayette County Record to list all of the facts and reasons why the letters to the editor of the array of extreme right wing MAGA Republicans are replete with a multitude of half-truths and lies. For example, the proposed funding of additional IRS agents opposed by GOP lawmakers is dedicated to auditing incomes of more than $400,000 because those upper incomes typically underpay the taxes they legitimately owe.

To the editor: A recent letter (8/9) cited the “Conservative” Enterprise Institute’s calculation that “households are paying an average of $15,788 in hidden regulatory costs.” (Its actual name is Competitive Enterprise Institute.) Using a household average to measure the societal impact of regulation is misleading and more politics than economics. CEI calculated that the annual cost of regulation is $2.1 trillion.

To the editor: I can not thank you enough for the public notice concerning the intent of an out of state no name bank holding company to acquire most of the banks in our area. I sent a letter to the Federal Reserve, and I pray that the people of Fayette, Colorado, and Austin counties take steps to make their displeasure known.

To the editor: Under the Biden/ HARRIS administration, it is now being reported that approximately “300,000 children” who crossed over the border are now “Missing and Unaccounted For.” Read that again. “Missing and Unaccounted For,” 300,000 children.

To the editor: The Harris-Walz democratic ticket is the most radical, antisemitic, and anti-American in the history of our country. They operate as communists and have divided our country.